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Ulanova

[ oo-lah-nuh-vuh ]

noun

  1. Ga·li·na (Ser·ge·yev·na) [g, uh, -, lee, -n, uh, sur-, gey, -, uh, v-n, uh, guh-, lyee, -n, uh, syi, r, -, gye, -yiv-n, uh], 1910–98, Soviet ballerina.


Ulanova

/ ʊˈlɑːnəvə /

noun

  1. UlanovaGalina (Sergeyevna)19101998FRussianDANCE: ballet dancer Galina ( Sergeyevna ) (ɡəˈliːnə) 1910–98, Russian ballet dancer, who performed with the Leningrad Kirov ballet (1928–44) and the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet (1944–62)
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Ulanova and Dolgan eventually married and came to the United States for educational reasons.

For example, calendars and other information indicate that Prince Philip “can never possibly have met” Russian ballerina Galina Ulanova, whose portrait the queen finds in her husband’s bag in Season 2.

Asya Ulanova, 22, an egg donor from New York, said she was watching television in November when she suddenly felt a “visceral” pain in her abdomen and had trouble breathing.

At the Kirov, Lavrovsky’s ballerina was Galina Ulanova; their “Romeo” success was such that Stalin installed them both at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow as resident stars of what had become the national company.

Crisp, now ballet critic for the Financial Times, met Ulanova some years later and she told him the dancers were initially concerned about the audience's subdued reaction.

From Reuters

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